John Deere and iPhones
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1) iphone and john deere ads show you actual demonstrations of the product in everyday use cases
2) the palm pre ad "flow" shows you nothing useful about the phone but does show a huge mass of clearly asian humanoids in faux-shaolin monk robes dancing and bowing in unison to a smiling white girl perched above them on a rock
Conclusion: iphone and john deere ads > palm pre ads
My own take on this: the Daily Show's lack of online ad inventory has completely burned me out on the palm pre after forcing me to watch the same uninformative and borderline racist ad several times while trying to watch a single 25 minute episode. Now anytime I hear the mention of the palm pre in any context I am seized by a pavlovian urge to smash the nearest mute button.
Happens on Hulu too. I'm not sure if they purposely spam the same ad throughout the whole show I'm watching (I'm assuming it's on purpose though since the banner at the top stays the same), but me not caring the first time usually means I won't care the second or third time I watch the ad. They'd have to show me the ad a couple of hundred times before I cave in because of psychological trauma.
If they let me skip ads and cycle new ones in until one that potentially interests me, that would probably be a more efficient use of bandwidth and ad money.